Hey, I don't have a moustache! A fedora, dark framed glasses, big cigar and tweed jacket, yes.

This requires a 'stash:

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Pete

is there any difference between a rich person in Japan investing billions here and GM selling more cars in their Chinese factories than here at home? In other words the plutocrats are borderless.



Watch out for the white Econoline van....the vehicle of choice for serial killers:eek:

Yep! Matters.

White van? You sure they're not just trying to sell you speakers? :)

Pete

It's a fine line between the two occupations.

I guess my last '97 F250 5.8l with 277,000 miles on it when I sold it doesn't count? :rolleyes:

That's the old Packard Detroit plant. There's a few of those sitting empty around Warren, Ohio, as well, Pete. My mother worked in one of them back in the '50s. My Aunt Norma retired in the early 1980s after nearly 40 years. Packard existed as a division of GM, before being "spun off" and renamed Delphi. AFAIK, all of the Warren plants are empty now.

Dave

Just as a side note;

Dephi, the company formerly known as "Packard" is still a HUGE company with facilities scattered around the globe-----but only six left in the United States, in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and New York. And all of the state side operations are technical/engineering or "customer technologies", (whatever that means).

It's all about globalization.

Dave

Yes there is if you want to sell a $32,000 Buick in Japan the tarriff is $$32,000 Florence lived and taught there for a number of years she know how it works.

Just FYI, they finally ripped the office building down at Twinsburg Stamping, the last bit of the old complex standing.

Pete

I think even if there was no import tariff on our cars the Japanese would still most likely buy their own autos. And the cost of living is so high there that I wonder if the cost of a domestic Japanese vehicle may be the same as the cost of an imported vehicle on their marker.